Glad to be here, thanks for the welcome. I expect you all to be nice for the next two days, then I know all bets are off. (Side note: Bob Schieffer has the softest hands of any man I’ve met.)
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Two days grace period in Snarkville? Your expectations may be a little high for this society.
@ 2:41 pm on April 7, 2008
Just remember – if anything goes wrong you can blame it on your predecessor for a good 6 months.
@ 2:49 pm on April 7, 2008
just one name? exotic
@ 2:59 pm on April 7, 2008
Hey, if you’re looking for an icebreaker with Trey, try this guaranteed to work banter: “Trey, I’m looking for a briefcase that is fashionable but can effectively hold my concealed handguns that I carry at all times to keep honest people honest and criminals on 24/7 alert per my constitutional guanantee despite the case currently and bogusly before the Supreme Court.”
@ 3:04 pm on April 7, 2008
Icebreakers, part Deux:
“Hey Wick, I am establishing a William F. Buckley Jr. memorial fund at the local Catholic school and would like some droll anecdotes and sesquipedalian phrases to employ post haste. Might you oblige?”
Or “Hey Rogers/Celeste/Nichols/Crain/McGill/Eveans the first round is on me. Meet ya at the Monk.”
@ 4:07 pm on April 7, 2008
FrontBurner® launched in March 2003, the first blog in Dallas run by a media organization. This is where the editors of D Magazine come to waste a tremendous amount of time.
5 comments
Two days grace period in Snarkville? Your expectations may be a little high for this society.
Just remember – if anything goes wrong you can blame it on your predecessor for a good 6 months.
just one name? exotic
Hey, if you’re looking for an icebreaker with Trey, try this guaranteed to work banter: “Trey, I’m looking for a briefcase that is fashionable but can effectively hold my concealed handguns that I carry at all times to keep honest people honest and criminals on 24/7 alert per my constitutional guanantee despite the case currently and bogusly before the Supreme Court.”
Icebreakers, part Deux:
“Hey Wick, I am establishing a William F. Buckley Jr. memorial fund at the local Catholic school and would like some droll anecdotes and sesquipedalian phrases to employ post haste. Might you oblige?”
Or “Hey Rogers/Celeste/Nichols/Crain/McGill/Eveans the first round is on me. Meet ya at the Monk.”